Redirection of the sacred: the intricacies of Islamic meaning

In the simulacra generating age of postmodemity, the hyper-reality of contemporary society and an “anarchic” sociality warrants an investigation into rampant consumerism, the decline of rationalist fundamentalism as the ideology of modernity and the plethora of resurgent-cum-resistant movements. Wit...

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Main Author:	Mohd Yusof, Danial
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Association of Muslim Social Scientists 2001
Subjects:	B Philosophy (General) BL Religion
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/32331/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32331/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32331/1/SocRlg_Yusof_Sacred.pdf

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spelling	iium-323312013-10-18T09:06:05Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/32331/ Redirection of the sacred: the intricacies of Islamic meaning Mohd Yusof, Danial B Philosophy (General) BL Religion In the simulacra generating age of postmodemity, the hyper-reality of contemporary society and an “anarchic” sociality warrants an investigation into rampant consumerism, the decline of rationalist fundamentalism as the ideology of modernity and the plethora of resurgent-cum-resistant movements. With this scenario, the article attempts to ascertain the value of postmodemism to Islamic scholarship in resolving the dialectic of metanmtives and relativism, Muslim scholars must be vigilant of postmodemism as a western construct and redefine its experience through Islamic phenomenology by exploring the complexities of heterogeneity and principles of humanity as opposed to a radical postmodemism that negates humanity as a meta-narrative and the celebration of egocentricity. Islam’s “occidentalism” is not a mental projection of moral superiority against the “Other” but a progressive discourse aiming to discover a universally tolerant projection and manifestation of Islam’s ummatic body and a representation of its tradition in a new age of possibilities. Association of Muslim Social Scientists 2001 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/32331/1/SocRlg_Yusof_Sacred.pdf Mohd Yusof, Danial (2001) Redirection of the sacred: the intricacies of Islamic meaning. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 18 (2). pp. 95-113. ISSN 0742-6763 http://www.amss.org/Home.aspx
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description	In the simulacra generating age of postmodemity, the hyper-reality of contemporary society and an “anarchic” sociality warrants an investigation into rampant consumerism, the decline of rationalist fundamentalism as the ideology of modernity and the plethora of resurgent-cum-resistant movements. With this scenario, the article attempts to ascertain the value of postmodemism to Islamic scholarship in resolving the dialectic of metanmtives and relativism, Muslim scholars must be vigilant of postmodemism as a western construct and redefine its experience through Islamic phenomenology by exploring the complexities of heterogeneity and principles of humanity as opposed to a radical postmodemism that negates humanity as a meta-narrative and the celebration of egocentricity. Islam’s “occidentalism” is not a mental projection of moral superiority against the “Other” but a progressive discourse aiming to discover a universally tolerant projection and manifestation of Islam’s ummatic body and a representation of its tradition in a new age of possibilities.
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title	Redirection of the sacred: the intricacies of Islamic meaning
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Redirection of the sacred: the intricacies of Islamic meaning

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